by LJ Cohen · 2002 · Cited by 191 — Findings concerning the characteristics of victims (e.g., sex, age, relationship to the pedophile) and research on pedophilic subtypes-exclu

The main purpose of this article is presentation of several basic issues related to the phenomenon of child sexual molesters and recognition of pedophilia ...

by MM Gullette · 1984 · Cited by 32 — of life in imaginative literature. Part I, "The Binary Imagination ... The behaviorist view of pedophilia as a clinical phenomenon is that

Literary works (either fiction or non-fiction) with themes or descriptions of pedophilia, a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent ...

by RCW Hall · 2007 · Cited by 502 — This article also examines how researchers determine if someone is a pedophile, potential treatments for pedophiles and sexually abused chil

The main argument against Carroll's pedophilia is that he (apparently) never molested children, or that he was a good person, or that he took care of children.

by S Araji · 1985 · Cited by 199 — Some of the most widely cited theories about pedophilia indicate that pedophiles choose children for sexual partners because children have so

Nov 21, 2025 — Pedophilia, in conventional usage, a psychosexual disorder characterized by sexual interest in prepubescent children or attempts to engage ...

by A Chronos · 2024 · Cited by 20 — Pedophilia only accounts for the attraction to prepubescents (including nepiophilia, the attraction to young children and infants); however,

Gillian Harkins, “Documenting the Pedophile: Virtual White Men in the Era of Recovered Memory” New Formations 70 (2010): 23-40.

Mar 16, 2021 — [Update: Gabriel Matzneff has been charged after years of writing about his own pedophilia.] In France, it is illegal for an adult to have ...

Aug 6, 2025 — Pedophilia is defined as a sexual interest in prepubescent children. It is empirically linked with sexual offending against children.

by TJ Holt · 2010 · Cited by 294 — A growing literature has examined the function of the Internet for child pornography distribution, social networks of pedophiles, and tactics

by SP Marsland · 1989 — This research study was conducted to determine how child abuse was portrayed in fiction literature for children in Kindergarten through 6th grade.

by A Bulfin · 2021 · Cited by 6 — Following a similar logic, James Kincaid argues that the real-world paedophile is constructed in factual discourse as a kind of gothic monster

Aug 31, 2002 — ... paedophile and a perverted serial killer with a preference for very young girls, including his two-year-old daughter.

Because indicators of pedophilia and hebephilia overlap substantially, I some- times use the term pedohebephilia to refer to findings that capture both age.

This essay examines fictional representations of sex crime, focusing on the construction of the paedophile in contemporary popular culture.

Nov 11, 2010 — 'Pedophile's Guide' pulled from Amazon.com · Profiting from pedophilia · Peddling pedophilia? · Outrage over pedophilia book.

by M Henshaw · 2017 · Cited by 183 — This article reviews the current literature pertaining to those who engage in child pornography offending. The basic characteristics of ..